Ah -- let's do try to get politics into this.

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On 10/25/2007 3:35 PM Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
> Well the Spruce Goose has done only one flight.
> They could try another one.
> As for length of waterway - what is it across the pacific - 6,000 miles,
> that ought to be long enough to get airborne, on a calm day of course.
>   And "blaming everyone' after a disaster.
> Well, some is justified of course.
> I do like this one - someone, perhaps Nancy Pelosi...i was driving listening
> to the radio when I heard this .......
> Might be who it was.....................andy, they  pointed out that
> national guard troops weren't very available or equipped to help with fire
> disaster because they are in Iraq !
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Loren Busch
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:01 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Satellite image of fire
>
> Sorry Sam, that one is grounded and sitting in McMinville, Oregon.  They
> built a museum around it...
>
> On 10/25/07, Sam Conant <samcvt@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>   I mentioned the other day, jokingly, that they ought to try
>> using that monster of an aircraft that Howard Hughes created, except they
>> probably didn't have a waterway long enough for it to fly aloft fully
>> loaded.
>>
>>
>>